Date: Sat, 28 Dec 1996 21:07:13 +0100 From: andreas@klemm.gtn.com (Andreas Klemm) To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: option FAILSAFE in GENERIC and LINT a bit misleading ? Message-ID: <Mutt.19961228210713.andreas@klemm.gtn.com> In-Reply-To: <7429.851797131@time.cdrom.com>; from "Jordan K. Hubbard" on Dec 28, 1996 10:18:51 -0800 References: <Mutt.19961228143400.andreas@klemm.gtn.com> <7429.851797131@time.cdrom.com>
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Jordan K. Hubbard writes: > > I'd suggest to rename the FAILSAFE option to NCR_FAILSAFE until > > other modules use this FAILSAFE option as well. > > I think it'd be far better just to get other modules using FAILSAFE > as soon as we can. Why change something we're only going to have to > change back again? I think you are right, if that option actually would be used. FAILSAFE exists since months now and nobody uses it. I have very often the problem, that my FreeBSD system simply hangs. It might be a hardware failure. I don't know exactly. Today I decided to try to build a kernel using the FAILSAFE option, because I thought it might make my system running more solid. After a new kernel build I had the feeling to look at the sources, what FAILSAFE is actually doing... The 'find /usr/src/sys -type f -print | xargs grep FAILSAFE' was a bit disappointing, since only ncr.c uses it. So I came to the conclusion, that FAILSAFE and it's description in LINT and GENERIC is totally misleading, since it currently brings nothing at all. It's only used in one driver. I think FAILSAFE is a good thing, but it's description is currently totally misleading for a "end (novice) user". Therefore I'd vote for a better description in GENERIC and LINT, what FAILSAFE actually does for a 2.2 or -current system. -- andreas@klemm.gtn.com /\/\___ Wiechers & Partner Datentechnik GmbH Andreas Klemm ___/\/\/ Support Unix -- andreas.klemm@wup.de pgp p-key http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/~bal/pks-toplev.html >>> powered by <<< ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Printing/aps-491.tgz >>> FreeBSD <<<
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